Research article summary (published 30 May 2006):

Lessons learned from evaluation of the use of the National electronic Library of Infection.

Full Abstract

The National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI:
http://www.neli.org.uk) in the UK is a freely available portal to key evidence and guidelines in the infectious disease field. This paper discusses 5 years of evaluation of the pilot library and how this evaluation informed design of the new library website. The importance of combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation is highlighted and the results of web access logs analysis, free text search query analysis and an online user survey are compared. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned for future development and evaluation of this Internet digital library.

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Author information

Author/s: Madle, Gemma (G); Kostkova, Patty (P); Mani-Saada, Jane (J); Roy, Anjana (A);

Affiliation: City eHealth Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London, UK. g.c.madle(-atsign-)city.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Health informatics journal (Health Informatics J), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jun; vol 12 (issue 2) : pp 137-51

Dates: Created 2006/10/06; Completed 2007/02/16;

PMID: 17023404, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Communicable Diseases Databases, Factual - utilization Great Britain Humans Information Storage and Retrieval - methods

Information Storage and Retrieval - methods Internet Libraries, Digital Program Evaluation Questionnaires

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